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Some Members of the Palladian Society.
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WHiiam H. Snell, '73.
Flora Bullock, '97
Amos G. Warner, '85.
The Palladian Souvenir.
io A. G. Warner of the clas3 of '85,
the man who-c career most fully illus
trates what one student can do for his
society and what the Palladian society
can do for one of its members, this vol
ume is affectionately dedicated is the
dedication to the souvenir of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Palladian
society. It is a very neat little booklet
of seventy pages, containing five cuts.
The frontispiece is a picture of the first
president, Mr. Vm. Snell, who was
graduated in 1873. The other cuts are
of Amos G. Warner, '85, the well known
writer and lecturer on economics, and to
whom the souvenir is dedicated, of Miss
Flora Bullock, the presiding officer of
the anniversary exercises, of the first
kail which the society occupied, and
two large cuts of the present member
ship. Printed on heavy smooth paper,
the typographical workmanship is un
usually excellent. The peculiar en-
thusiam which has alwaja characteriz
ed Palladians appears in the account of
the celebration of the anniversary which
forms the prologue to the history of the
society. The history is divided into
three parts. Mis. A. W. Field ('82) re
lates tho story from 1871 to 1SS0. She
took an active and impressive part in
the exercises and politics of the society,
and as president firit displayed her rare
abilities and judgment as a presiding
officer. Mrs. Field sajs that "members
of the faculty must have attended those
early meetings. They are often men
tioned in the reports of the secretary as
taking part in the debate or even favor
ing the society with a recitation.
The original constitution and by-laws,
though set forth with more wealth of
language than those of the later date,
seem not to have been entirely satisfac
tory, since at almost every meeting of
the society, for the last year, one or the
other of them was amended, and at one
meeting, the secretary gravely informs
us, the entire constitution was suspend
ed. About this time the janitor was in
structed to fascen the seats to the floor
so that they should be four feet apart.
The programs must have been enjoy
able for the society felt it necessary to
pass a law prohibiting all applause, and
the secretary's record often ends with
these words: "The gas was tnrned off
and the society adjourned." It was in
these stirring days that Mr. George
Francis Train wag elected to honorary
membership.
It is interesting to note how gradual
ly but surely the society grew out of
these first primitive regulations and
came to be almost a law unto himself.
The Palladians inaugurated their
custom of holding exhibitions early in
their history. The committee for this
first entertainment selected nine (9)
members to take part, limiting each of
them to fifteen (15) minutes, then there
was prayer and several pieces of music
Lincoln audience in these early days
must have been patient and long-suffering.
A comparison of the names of the
committee on the exhibition with the
names on the program of tho exhibition
shows that here, also, was the beginning
of another custom; the appointment of
a committee, which would appoint its
own membership to places on the pro
grama custom which extended through
many years in which there were exhibi
tion committees, where every member
wad also on the program.''
Jay Amos Barrett, '88, reports the
half decade from 1880 to 1890. Ha
speaks of the affectionate, proud en
thusiasm for the bo( iety which all genu
ine Palladians possess, which is differ
ent in kind as well as abundant in qual
ity, and which impresses strangers as
mystic adoration of an unknown deity.
Mr. Barrett treats the Frat-Barb Fight
rather gingerly but asserts that the ex
pulsion of the fraternity members was
for the good of the society. On this
point opinions differ. The socially and
mentally brilliant young sten and women
who are excluded from the literary sdei-
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